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                  <p class="p_Heading1"><span class="f_Heading1">The Code Template Editor</span></p>



  
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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The Code Template Editor provides the facilities of the </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">Common Code Editor</span><span class="f_BodyText">. For more information on the Common Code Editor, see the </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="code_editors.htm">Code Editors</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> topic.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To access the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Code Template Editor</span><span class="f_BodyText"> window, select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Settings | Code Generation Templates</span><span class="f_BodyText"> menu option.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="190" style="width:190px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Language</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="618" style="width:618px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Select the programming language.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="618" style="width:618px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Display the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="datatypes.htm">Programming Languages Datatypes</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext"> dialog, which enables you to include programming languages other than those supported for Enterprise Architect, for which to create or edit code templates.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="190" style="width:190px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Template</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="618" style="width:618px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Display the contents of the active template, and provides the editor for modifying templates.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="190" style="width:190px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_UIControl">Templates</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="618" style="width:618px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">List the base code templates. The active template is highlighted. The </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Modified</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> field indicates whether you have changed the default template for the current language.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="618" style="width:618px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">List the stereotyped templates, for the active base template.</span></p>
<p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">The </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Modified</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> field indicates whether you have modified a default stereotyped template.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="618" style="width:618px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Invoke a dialog for creating a custom stereotyped template.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="618" style="width:618px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Invoke a dialog for adding a stereotyped template, for the currently selected base template.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="618" style="width:618px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Update the editor display with the default version of the active template.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="618" style="width:618px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Overwrite the active templates with the contents of the editor.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="618" style="width:618px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">If you have overridden the active template, the override is deleted and replaced by the corresponding default code template.</span></p>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">For information on creating and editing code templates using the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Code Template Editor</span><span class="f_BodyText"> window, see </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="thecodetemplateeditor_2.htm">SDK for Enterprise Architect</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"><a href="thecodetemplateeditor_2.htm">.</a></span></p>
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<td width="952" bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="width:952px; background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">User-modified and user-defined Code Templates can be imported and exported as Reference Data (see the </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="importexportrefdata.htm">Import and Export Reference Data</a></span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> topic</span><span class="f_Bulletlist3" style="font-style: italic;">.</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> The templates defined for each language are indicated in the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Export Reference Data</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText"> dialog by the language name with the suffix </span><span class="f_TiporNoteText" style="font-style: italic;">_Code_Templates</span><span class="f_TiporNoteText">. If no templates exist for a language, there is no entry for the language in the dialog.</span></p>
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